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The number of adult baptisms in Belgium is expected to grow from 534 in 2025 to 689 in 2026, as a trend of steady growth continues.

In 2010, there were 143 adult baptisms in Belgium; in 2015, 180; in 2020, 305.

The Western European nation of 12 million (map) is 61% Christian (58% Catholic) and 9% Muslim.

In a wide-ranging interview, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York from 2009 until his recent retirement, discussed the Trump administration, Vice President JD Vance, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and his own new appointment as co-chief chaplain of the New York Police Department.

Cardinal Dolan also offered strong praise for his successor (Archbishop Ronald Hicks) and said that it is time to “move on” from the emphasis on synodality.

The chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration described a $38.3-billion expansion of the federal immigration detention system as a “moral inflection point for our country.”

“The thought of holding thousands of families in massive warehouses should challenge the conscience of every American,” Bishop Brendan Cahill of Victoria, Texas, said in his February 20 statement. “Whatever their immigration status, these are human beings created in the image and likeness of God, and this is a moral inflection point for our country.”

“We implore the Administration and Congress to lead with right reason, abandon this misuse of taxpayer funds, and to instead pursue a more just approach to immigration enforcement that truly respects human dignity, the sanctity of families, and religious liberty,” he added.

In releasing Bishop Cahill’s statement, the USCCB said that the expense “amounts to nearly fifty times the annual budget for the entire immigration court system and almost five times the funding provided this year to operate the federal prison system.”

“The plan partly entails opening eight ‘mega‑centers,’ each of which would be capable of detaining 7,000 to 10,000 people,” the USCCB added. “Aside from the internment camps used to incarcerate Japanese Americans in the 1940s, such facilities have no precedent in American history.”

Archbishop José Adolfo Larregain, OFM, of Corrientes, Argentina, declared a marriage contracted last month between two transgender persons ipso facto null.

The putative marriage was contracted between a man who presents himself as a woman and a woman who presents herself as a man. At the time, the parish priest said that he had consulted with Archbishop Larregain, and that the prelate had found no canonical impediment to wedding because they were of opposite sexes.